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Colour of Trace / Trace of Colour. How Chromatic Qualities of Matter Painting Can Offer Exposure to Non-Material Reality

Bernadeta Stano
Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings
Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2021.28.spec.11

Abstract

Intending to illustrate meanings attributed to color in the matter painting of Cracow, the author selected a specific time in that movement’s evolution: the year 1960. Her interpretation of the slogan “Color of Trace/ Trace of Color” comprises two practices involving the use of specific hues: the color of trace references the shades of material employed in the process of building the image-object; the trace of color refers to the specific polychromy ascribed to the composition, actual shades of materials employed notwithstanding; or minuscule markings within the image field, vestiges of the kapist perception of image, applied as ingredients intended to emphasise the composition’s expression or media of non-visual symbolism. The scrutiny of selected matter painting examples was expanded to include reflections by critics responding spontaneously to a wave of oeuvre by painters of Cracow they had formerly been unfamiliar with.

Keywords:

matter painting, Group of Five, Nowohucka Group

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Stano, B. (2021). Colour of Trace / Trace of Colour. How Chromatic Qualities of Matter Painting Can Offer Exposure to Non-Material Reality. Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings, (28), 143–157. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2021.28.spec.11

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